Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a
fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue
Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it.

Since the 1791 ratification of our Constitution, until well into the 1920s,
federal spending as a percentage of gross domestic product never exceeded 5
percent, except during war. Today federal spending is 25 percent of our GDP.
State and local government spending is about 15 percent of the GDP. That means
government spends more than 40 cents of each dollar we earn. If we add
government's regulatory burden, which is simply a disguised form of taxation,
the government take is more than 50 percent of what we produce.

In order to squeeze out of us half of what we produce, a government tax
collection agency must be ruthless and able to put the fear of God into its
citizens. The IRS has mastered that task. Congress has given it powers that
would be deemed criminal if used by others. For example, the Constitution's
Fifth Amendment protects Americans against self-incrimination and being forced
to bear witness against oneself. That's precisely what one does when he is
compelled to sign his income tax form. However, a Fifth Amendment argument
can't be used as a defense in a court of law. The IRS will counter that you
voluntarily provided the information on your tax return.

If you're in debt to Bank of America, Wells Fargo or any other private
creditor, in order for it to garnish your wages as a means of collecting debt,
it must first get a court order. By contrast, the IRS can garnish your wages
without having to get a court order first. If your employer doesn't obey the
IRS and send it a portion of your wages, he will be held accountable for what
you owe. At the minimum, some IRS collection procedures violate one of the
basic tenets of the rule of law -- namely, the law of the land applies equally
to individuals (and other private entities) and the government (and its
officials and agents).

Our Founding Fathers feared the emergence of an agency such as the IRS and its
potential for abuse. That's why they gave us Article 1, Section 9 of the
Constitution, which reads: "No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be
laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed
to be taken."

A capitation is a tax placed directly on an individual. That's what an income
tax is. The founders feared the abuse and the government power inherent in a
direct tax. In Section 8 of Article 1, they added, "But all Duties,
Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States." These
protections the founders gave us were undone by the Progressive era's 16th
Amendment, which reads, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect
taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the
several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

If federal spending were only 5 percent of our GDP ($750 billion) -- instead of
25 percent ($3.8 trillion) -- there would be no need for today's oppressive and
complicated tax system. You might ask, "How could we be a great nation
without all the government spending?" When our Constitution was ratified
in 1791, we were a weak and poor nation. One hundred forty years later, with
federal spending a mere pittance of what it is today, we became the world's
richest and most powerful nation. No small part of this miracle was limited and
nonintrusive government.

The bottom line is that members of Congress need such a ruthless tax collection
agency as the IRS because of the charge we Americans have given them. We want
what the IRS does -- namely, to take the earnings of one American so Congress
can create a benefit for some other American. Don't get angry with IRS agents.
They are just following orders.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley,
high priest of climate skepticism, advised Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, wrote
leaders for the Yorkshire Post, was editor of the Catholic paper The Universe,
managing editor of the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, assistant editor of Today,
and consulting editor of the Evening Standard. He invented the million-selling
"Eternity Puzzles," "Sudoku X" and a promising treatment
for infections. See the Science & Public Policy Institute.

Obama has done it. He has brought
America down. It only took him just over four years. The Republicans could have
stopped him. They didn’t.

How did the nihilistic left succeed
in destroying America? Simple. They learned just a little of the capitalism
they hate, and they drove your nation into outright bankruptcy.

And here is what the GOP has to say
about it: just about nothing.

The once-mighty United States is now
the most indebted nation on Earth. In round numbers, here are just some of the
vital statistics as the patient dies:

Now for the big numbers. Your
government’s Social Security liability is as big as the national debt: $17
trillion. Its prescription drug liability is $22 trillion. Then there’s the
Medicare liability of $86 trillion. Total unfunded liabilities of the U.S.
government are $125 trillion.

Net assets for each U.S. citizen are
$300,000. The net liability of the U.S. government, shared among its citizens,
amounts to almost four times that: $1.1 million a head. And the government’s
debt is growing at $1 million every 45 seconds. To cover its annual deficit, it
is printing $1 trillion a year of currency that is not backed by any asset
whatsoever.

Here is what will happen next. When
the crash comes, don’t say you weren’t given fair and clear warning.

First, the dollar will cease – no,
make that “is already ceasing” – to be the world’s reserve currency. China, as
I have been warning you she would, has realized the dollar is finished. So she
is quietly making startling progress with bilateral and multilateral deals to
replace the dollar with the yuan as the world’s currency of choice.

Sterling, once the world’s reserve
currency, went precisely the same way in 1967 under orders from Moscow, which
then largely controlled the governing Socialist Labor party in Britain.

After the Second World War, the
Socialist/Communist governments of Attlee and Wilson bankrupted Britain with
health-care and welfare programs and nationalization of industries. Inflation
rose to 27 percent.

Obama’s copycat policies are
different in only one respect. Moscow is no longer calling the shots.
International totalitarianism no longer needs direction. Its cruel,
hate-filled, destructive mission now advances on autopilot.

Watch some of the straws in the
wind. China and Korea have come to a little-noticed agreement that
international trade between them will no longer be denominated in U.S. dollars,
but in yuan, or Won.

Behind the closed mahogany doors of
the world’s finance houses, elaborate and secret preparations are being made
for the upheaval and international financial collapse that will follow the
deliberate printing-out and consequent implosion of the dollar.

Your GOP representatives should be,
but are not, asking the administration to reveal to them the ever-tougher terms
on which the Chinese continue – with ever-greater reluctance –to lend money to
keep their communist ally in the White House afloat.

Do not believe China cannot afford
to let her biggest creditor fail. She can, she will, and she is making careful
preparations to do just that.

If you thought the crash of 2008 was
bad, think again. The crash that is coming –I cannot put a date on it, but it
is not far away now – will be orders of magnitude worse.

So, what should you do to protect
yourself and your family? First, get rid of every dollar you have. Dollars
are now all but worthless. When the crash comes, they will have no value at
all.

In hard times, most financial
instruments – currencies, stocks, bonds – are not worth the paper they are
printed on. Get rid of them now. Buy silver coins. They will quintuple in price
once the crash sets in, and they are small enough to be fungible when the
dollar dies.

Buy land, some of it well-wooded,
some of it arable, some of it grassland. You will need the timber to power your
steam tractor. Gasoline will be a costly rarity. And make sure you can defend
yourselves. Starving mobs are no respecters of persons. Do what the Mormons do:
Get three months’ supply of imperishable foodstuffs and hide them in the
basement.

Absurd though this advice may now
seem, there is a real danger that the crash will sudden. If so – perhaps for
several months, and even for years – the fabric of civilization, including the
food-supply chain, will fail.

It is not my custom to write in
millenarian or apocalyptic terms. But the very best that can be said for your
current administration is that it simply has no idea what damage it is doing.
It is printing money in the vain hope of buying itself time. Yet every fake dollar
that comes off the printing-presses makes the problem worse and the solution
harder.

At worst, what is now happening to
your nation may be deliberate. In that event, your current “president” will go
down as history’s greatest villain. In any event, he will go down as history’s
greatest incompetent.

Do not believe none of this can
happen. Psychiatrists study what they call “normalcy bias.” People expect
that everything will carry on and that America is too big to fail. She is not.
She has failed. You will pay a heavy price for her failure, unless you act
now to defend yourselves against what your government, with the culpable,
silent acquiescence of the GOP, is doing to destroy your nation.

Monday, May 27, 2013

“According to the White House
Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World
Report, the
president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen
Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March
31st.

The White House lists the IRS
union leader’s visit this way:

Kelley, Colleen Potus
03/31/2010 12:30

In White House language,
“POTUS” stands for “President of the United States.”

The very next day after her
White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s
Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to
the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative
groups around America.”

The New Barbarians

Recent abuses of power are a reminder that the barbarians are still with us,
using the power of progressive government to punish anyone who dares oppose
them. Barbarians have no regard for others and depend on plunder for their
existence, as they have throughout history, taking from the productive by
force.

J. Bronowski described the barbarian Genghis Khan in The Ascent of Man:

From AD 1200 to 1300 they made almost the last attempt to establish the
supremacy of the robber who produces nothing and who, in his feckless way,
comes to take from the peasant (who has nowhere to flee) the surplus that
agriculture accumulates.

Modern plunderers realize they don't need Genghis Khan's horsemen, and can
use the power of the state in place of the sword. Known by various names, the
left, liberals, socialists, communists, progressives, et al., these new
plunderers are able to corrupt the civilized rule of law, enlisting government
as plunderer-in-chief. The most aggressive American plunderer is the radicalized
Democratic Party, whose hold on power depends on distributing the loot. This,
of course, requires the use of force. There is no box to check on the tax
return, "I agree to contribute to the Plunderer's Fund."

The victim of plunder is not free, as Mark Levin remarks in Liberty and
Tyranny:

In the civil society, private property and liberty and inseparable. The
individual's right to live freely and safely and pursue happiness includes the
right to acquire and possess property, which represents the fruits of his own
intellectual and/or physical labor. As the individual's time on earth is
finite, so, too, is his labor. The illegitimate denial or diminution of his
private property enslaves him to another and denies him his liberty.

The American who has worked hard and earned his own surplus is no better off
than the peasant confronted by a Mongol raid. At least the Mongols were honest.
They came to plunder. They probably didn't tell the peasant, "We are just
collecting your fair share." The new plunderers claim to be the champions
of "the unfortunate" or "the poor," for who would dare to
be against the unfortunate? Wealth redistribution by plunder is not compassion,
and it is not charity. Charity is voluntary. Plunder is forbidden by all the
major religions. The moral standard is not "Thou shalt steal for
others," but "Thou shalt not steal."

Yet the left claims to hold the moral high ground. The peasant who desires
to keep his surplus is called "selfish," while the plunderers are
called "compassionate." The moral commandment of the left is "Extort
thy neighbor." Government operating under this commandment abandons
the rule of law, pits one citizen against another, and destroys the civil
society.

In prehistoric times, the man with the biggest club won (and got the girl!).
The barbarians continued the "biggest club society," wielding their
swords against the helpless peasant. As societies became more civilized,
plunder was more difficult. The Founders of the United States of America wrote
the Constitution to protect the individual and his property against use of
force. They abhorred the redistribution of wealth (plunder).

James Madison said:

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort.... This being
the end of government, that alone is not a just government, ....nor is property
secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and
personal liberty is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for
the service of the rest.

And John Adams:

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.

For 130 years, Americans were protected by their Constitution against
plunder, until the 16th Amendment opened the door. The Progressives rushed in
while the courts eventually left us defenseless. The resulting tax system
allows government social engineering that would otherwise be prohibited, such
as providing cover for the implementation of the unconstitutional ObamaCare.
Those in power can reward friends (corruption) and persecute political
opponents (tyranny). Abuses
by the IRS are not so much about misuse of power, but that a government
organization with such
power exists.

Unfortunately, Americans have gone along with this for a hundred years now.
Today, to object to the power to plunder is to be vilified as some kind of
unenlightened radical. The immoral concept that someone else has a
"right" to the fruits of my labor, in essence turning me into a
slave, has become entrenched into American life like a leech which cannot be
burned off.

Unlike my parents' generation, many feel no shame in accepting the plundered
loot, as if they somehow deserve it. They vote for it, some even lie to receive
it. They are blind to tyranny as long as the check comes. They would be
insulted to be called thieves. But if not thieves, how would one describe
beneficiaries of extorted money?

Genghis Khan (after leaving his sword at the door) could give a speech to
the Democratic Convention to rousing applause. After all, wasn't it
"unfair" his people didn't have as much as the peasant they raided?
Since they are the "unfortunates," don't they have a
"right" to free health care, free legal advice, free food, and even
free condoms? Should you not want to give it to them, the IRS will make you an
offer you cannot refuse. The power to plunder has no place in a free society.
The new barbarians have legislative titles, work in government agencies, and
wear judicial robes. But underneath is the sword of Genghis Khan.

An old "country boy," Gary Horne is one of them "small
government radicals," and the founder of BarberShopValues.com.

"The Boston Marathon bombers hated
America, but they loved the American dole. The suspects in the scheme to murder
and maim innocent men, women and children were living off the generosity of the
American taxpayers they hated. The Boston Herald reports that the 'brains' of
the operation, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was on the Massachusetts dole with his wife,
Katherine, and their 3-year-old daughter, Zahara.

The parents of the Tsarnaev
brothers received welfare and the accused brother, Dzhokhar, received benefits
when he was a child. Taxpayer generosity to the Tsarnaev family did not end
there. The city of Cambridge awarded Dzhokhar a $2,500 scholarship toward his
education at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. ... Taxpayers are
even paying for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyer.

Congress turns now to immigration
reform, and the Tsarnaev case raises important issues about the high price of certain
public policies under consideration. ... [Republican Sen. Jeff] Sessions
observes that the Department of Homeland Security has been ignoring a
100-year-old law that requires that the government consider, before admitting
an immigrant, the likelihood that he will become a 'public charge,' who will
eventually be permanently dependent on public welfare.

Less than 1 percent of
visa applications were denied on these grounds in 2011, despite a growing
number of undocumented residents who live on food stamps and other welfare
programs. The Tsarnaev brothers were granted political asylum because they were
Muslims from Chechnya. ... The immigration debate gives Congress a chance to
re-evaluate the wisdom of sacrificing Americans for political correctness by sending
invitations to prospective citizens in parts of the world where nearly
everybody hates America and all it stands for.

This phenomenon illustrates the
need for vigilance, to make sure immigrants will become productive, prosperous
Americans. Sadly, it seems the primary motivation of the president and his
party on immigration reform is to create 11 million new Democratic voters with
an amnesty, and hang the cost." --The
Washington Times

The most bizarre
prediction of global warming doom ever

Thomas Lifson

When apocalyptic religious cults like Warmism fail the reality test, their
devotees get desperate and unintentionally start producing self-parodies. The
mass slow-mo mental implosion can be hilarious. We have just such an instance
involving a group of House Democrats. The victim mentality is leaping to
the rescue for the cause of global warming. Pete Kasperowicz of The
Hill reports:

Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate
change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to
"transactional sex" for survival.

The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other
Democrats, says the resultsof climate
change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes
can be particularly harmful for women.

"[F]ood insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be
vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early
marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor
reproductive health," it says.

Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel recently
warned that sequestration would cause “suspension of important activities,
curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel” but
the spending cuts haven’t killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has
continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon.

“In March, Gevo entered into a contract with the Defense
Logistics Agency to supply the U.S. Army with 3,650 gallons of renewable jet
fuel to be delivered by the second quarter of 2013,” Gevo announced
this week in its first quarter financial report. “This initial order may be
increased by 12,500 gallons. All shipments will be at a fixed price of $59 per
gallon during the initial testing phase. These shipments are in addition to the
renewable jet fuel supplied to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the U.S. Navy
(USN).”

On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president,
addressed the Duma, (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions
with minorities in Russia...

"In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere,
if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian,
and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, then we advise
them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need
minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special
privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud
they yell 'discrimination'. We better learn from the suicides of America,
England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian
customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the
primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks
of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first,
observing that the minorities are not Russians.”

The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a standing ovation for five
minutes.

BOSTON
- National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault
weapons were ambushed on April 19th by elements of a paramilitary extremist
faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and
more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.

Speaking after the clash Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the
extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the
radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent
incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices.

The governor,
who described the group's organizers as "criminals," issued an
executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has
interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and order. The military
raid on the extremist arsenal followed widespread refusal by the local
citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.

Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in
the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between
government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible
confiscation of illegal arms.

One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that
"none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the
law and turned over their weapons voluntarily." Government troops
initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and
ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in
Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped
off regarding the government's plans. During a tense standoff in Lexington's
town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation,
ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes.

The impasse was
broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing
extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange. Ironically,
the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the
civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from
surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding
his forces overmatched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat. Governor Gage has
called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its
effort to restore law and order.

The governor also demanded the surrender of
those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government
troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and
John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders"
of the extremist faction, remain at large.

The
now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of
the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised
Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation,
says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical
behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper
– than anyone realizes.

Jerry Zeifman,
a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work
of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee.
Hillary got a job working on the investigation at
the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the
committee staff and refused to give her a letter
of recommendation – one of only three people who earned
that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said
in an interview last week. “She was an unethical,
dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the
Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

How could a
27-year-old House staff member do all that? She
couldn’t do it by herself, but Zeifman said she
was one of several individuals – including Marshall,
special counsel John Doar and senior associate
special counsel (and future Clinton White House
Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a
seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard
Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.

Why would they want to do that?
Because, according to Zeifman, they feared putting
Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt,
Zeifman said, had the goods on nefarious
activities in the Kennedy Administration that
would have made Watergate look like a day at the beach –
including Kennedy’s purported complicity in the
attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.

The actions of Hillary and her cohorts
went directly against the judgment of top
Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel.
Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall,
Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough
votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and
deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this
off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent
legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide
her deception.

The brief involved precedent for
representation by counsel during an impeachment
proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a
legal brief arguing there is no right to
representation by counsel during an impeachment
proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment
attempt in 1970.

“As soon as the impeachment resolutions
were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader
Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House
Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself
a lawyer,” Zeifman said.

The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas
to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent.
Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the
documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. So what did Hillary do?

“Hillary
then removed all the Douglas files to the offices
where she was located, which at that time was
secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said.
Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing
there was no precedent for the right to
representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding – as
if the Douglas case had never occurred.

The brief was so fraudulent
and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would
have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a
judge.